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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 December 1880
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 95: 507-8
Summary:
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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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Darwin expresses extreme admiration and interest in ARW's work, Island Life.
Darwin says he pities ARW and that he has hardly ever wished anything so much as to get ARW on the pension list.
Discusses ARW's view on European plants and effects of glaciers on Alpine plants.
Darwin remarks that "As far as I know no one ever discussed the meaning of the relation between representative species before I did & as I suppose Wallace did in his paper before the Linn. Soc. [1858].".
Island Life.
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